Volume 2 of Gary Duggan and Brian Poshen’s Marvel Now run starts off with a blast from the past. A “lost” Deadpool issue has been found in the back of a file cabinet and we get to see Peter Parker and Tony Stark in Deadpool’s universe. The “flashback” is a delight. Deadpool saves everyone while pissing them off at the same time. Classic Deadpool. Fast forward to where we left off. Agent Preston is unhappily ensconced in Deadpool’s brain. Necromancer Michael and Ben Franklin are […]
Who You Gonna Call? WADE WILSON!
I’ve been hearing about this Deadpool guy for a while, but I didn’t really know where to start. I’ve been dithering on this for a year. Finally, Amazon had SDCC inspired Daily Deals on comics and a generous friend gave me a gift certificate and said, “go forth and purchase.” I bought 3 Deadpool volumes, a Guardians of the Galaxy, a Hawkeye, and a Captain Marvel. I decided to start with the superhero with whom I’m least familiar. I have no idea what people who […]
A Bearded Mess is Still a Mess
Uhhhhhnnnnnnn. I had such hopes for this book. I pre-ordered it and everything. It started out fine, but the problems quickly piled up. I can’t really get into the stuff that bothered me without spoilers, so there will be mild spoilers. Duane is one of Ashley Winston’s (Beauty and The Mustache) seven brothers. The brothers will be contributing names like Cletus and Jethro to Mrs. Julien’s Romance Novel Name Tally over the next couple of years. Jessica is the new math teacher in town. She […]
3 is a Magic Number
Ready Player One gave me a weird nostalgia trip into the past with a side of depression about our future. Other than a little Pac Man and Space Invaders, I didn’t play video or arcade games. My relationship with 1980’s pop culture is complicated by my having been an unhappy teen during that decade. I disconnected as much as I could from the time and place in which I existed. I loved very early MTV, but abandoned it when it became dominated by arena bands, […]
Games We Play
Yes, this is another read courtesy of Prolixity Julien, and a lovely one at that (you should read her review). Of the college age sports player related romance series I’ve read in the past month, these are among my favorites. I tried to review just the first book, but I couldn’t stop reading long enough, and then I read some other books, and now the series is stuck as a package in my head. I’ve gone through a full cycle on the series from “OMG! […]
Happy Birthday, Mr. Tesla!
Atomic Robo has been one of my favorite discoveries of the year. It isn’t deep, but it is smart and fun. Volume 5 is in many ways Robo’s origin story, not the origin of how he came to be, but the origin of how he became a crime fighting action scientist. It introduces us to young Robo, still living with his creator, Nikolai Tesla. Robo is bored with his studies and seeks adventure in adventure science comic books. One night he sees Jack Tarot, a […]
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